Senior Enterprise Architect

Position Overview:

Seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise architecture across multiple technology domains, including applications, cloud, cybersecurity, networks, infrastructure, data, integration, and IT operations. The Senior Enterprise Architect will serve as the senior technical authority of support services that spans all contract task areas. Alongside the Program Manager and Alternate Program Manager, provide technical oversight of the program; set architecture standards across the cloud, cybersecurity, network, systems, application, and service management teams;

and direct the configuration and change management program. Own the architecture baseline and documentation, review proposed changes before Government approval, and lead modernization planning with client leadership.

Responsibilities:

Leads in setting architecture standards across all the functional and technical support teams.

Develops and maintains physical and logical architecture diagrams for every client location, and logical descriptions of cloud-based systems

Perform and oversee IT systems engineering to design, build, and test minor to significant IT solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Provide architecture direction for applications hosted in Cloud One (AWS Gov Cloud) at Impact Levels 4 through 6, including Zero Trust, Infrastructure as Code, and Dev Sec Ops  practices.

Partner with the Cybersecurity teams to build RMF, STIG/SRG, and Secure Host Baseline requirements into designs and changes, and maintain security architecture documentation.

Advise client divisions on modernization plans and sequencing, including service consolidation, application refactoring, and migrations across on-premises and cloud environments.

Align the architecture with IT portfolio management and capital planning, including Enterprise Architecture relationships and investment data maintained in ITIPS.Serve as the contractor counterpart to the Government Configuration Management, and Engineering leads and briefs architecture, standards, and change and configuration performance to client leadership.

Required

Skills & Experience:

Expert knowledge of enterprise and solution architecture principles, architecture governance, systems engineering, technology road mapping, and lifecycle management.

Strong understanding of federal and DoD enterprise environments, including classified and unclassified networks.

Experience designing and governing secure cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions, preferably within AWS Gov Cloud or Cloud One.

Proven expertise implementing AWS cloud services, virtualization, compute, storage, databases, networking, identity and access management, containers, Infrastructure as Code, and Dev Sec Ops .Familiarity with the Risk Management Framework. vulnerability management, SIEM, and continuous monitoring.

Experience applying DISA STIGs/SRGs, secure configuration baselines, and creating POA&Ms.Understanding of Zero Trust architecture, network segmentation, identity-centric security, least privilege, encryption, and boundary-protection patterns.

Experience integrating enterprise platforms, applications, APIs, workflows, identity services, databases, reporting capabilities, and external systems.

Working knowledge of network and infrastructure architecture, including routing, switching, firewalls, software-defined networking, virtualization, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations.

Familiarity with configuration management, change management, Agile and Waterfall delivery, IT portfolio management, and ITIL-based service management.

Ability to analyze complex requirements and produce architecture diagrams, interface descriptions, technical standards, decision papers, implementation plans, and executive briefings.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior Government leaders and both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Experience working with networks in an USAF IT environment is desired.

Demonstrated experience leading architecture across three or more major domains, such as cloud, cybersecurity, applications, networks, infrastructure, data, or IT service management.

Experience developing architecture for highly available, mission-critical, geographically distributed, and security-sensitive environments.

Experience reviewing technical designs and guiding multidisciplinary teams through design, implementation, testing, deployment, sustainment, and…